Raymarine/Lowrance Comparison
Submitted by davidbland50 on Mon, 2011-08-01 19:31
Has anybody compared the Raymarine A70D with the Lowrance HDS 5? Which is the best unit? Not familiar with Raymarine.
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Tomcat
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Raymarine
Have got both raymarine is in a different league to lowrance
strike_zone
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lowrance hands down
raymarine is so basic yuk
Brody
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Have used both and I much
Have used both and I much prefer the Raymarine, especially at the current price.
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they must be giving gaymarine away
cos nobody wanted to buy there overpriced crap
The_Wanderer
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Thats a big call What do you
Thats a big call What do you base this on??
I have used both and Raymarine is miles a head. The interface and general features are miles in front of the Lowrance. I hve used E80s as well as the Smaller A70s. User friendly the soft keys on the raymarine make life so much easier. I wouldn't hesitate to go Raymarine.
Tomcat
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Hope
Are you talking from experience or just reading glossy magazines if so what model raymarine were you running so you can tells why there crap .not some reason like I saw one on a mates boat
davidbland50
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So Tomcat, does that mean you
So Tomcat, does that mean you prefer Raymarine or dont? And Strikezone, what makes Lowrance better? Brody what makes Raymarine better other than the price?
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till
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I have used both and
I have used both and lowerance is probably a bit flashier looking but I think it was a better sounder.
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lowrance website gives more
lowrance website gives more specs it comes with 83/200 trany duce rstandard ray marine comes with50/200 standard and ray specks on peak to peak and rms got me baffled i think the HDS 5 has the goods my self have used this model before but not the Ray marine A70D only the big E 140w .
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I was running a Lowrance side
I was running a Lowrance side by side with a Raymarine. Both combos. My personal preference was the Raymarine for the sounder and the Lowrance for an easier to use plotter.
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Tomcat
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Hds
I have just sold hds10 now have c90w and c120w that how good I think they are but they are only as good as your transducer I have 1 kl watt 260tm it's like a house brick compared to standard tranni
till
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Mmm that looks pretty tasty!
Mmm that looks pretty tasty!
grantarctic1
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So tasty
So tasty i just ordered one ( Raymarine E7 D ) Should arive early October Just as i finish of my boat repairs , pitty about the timing with the demersal ban .
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Haha cool, looking forward to
Haha cool, looking forward to seeing it!
Toby Roe
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You get a lot more product
You get a lot more product for your money with the Raymarine A70D. The screen is 6.4” (must be the closest the manufacturers can get to 7”) which is the same as the HDS7 and you get the soft buttons which are only on the HDS8 and HDS10 from Lowrance. You also get the 50/200 transducer with the unit which makes the price difference even better again.
Some of the things I like about the A70D are (Not saying the Lowrance doesn’t also have the following good or bad points):
Bad points
Also, I believe that the price is probably only better because Raymarine don’t use geofencing and so the international markets are not distorted by this. In my opinion it is certaintly not lower due to the product being inferior.
I hope this helps.
scotto
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I got both,
I have the raymarine A50D in my dinghy, and the lowrance 7" screen non-HDS (i forget what model, maybe xc7 or something...) plotter in my bigger boat.
I reckon my lowrance is a better (plotter) unit, although I have had it longer, and i'm therefore more familiar with its functions than i am with the raymarine, but the raymarine is still a pretty good unit, and even moreso with the current prices and free transducers. I use a furuno FCV620 for my sounder.
the only thing i could pick with the raymarine (and i have only used it twice), was it was slightly off with its tracking and position, ie: you go to a mark, then when you get there, it shows you are slightly off the mark. other than that, the combo is as good as any that i have used. the sounder shows very good definition of the bottom. Im sure i will grow more fond of this unit, the more i use it.
one of my mates has a HDS5 combo, and he had a bit of trouble holding bottom (70m) at speed, but that could have been his tranny set-up. he also had a problem where the plotter could not keep up with him, and would constantly loose his position. im not sure if that was a fault or not, or whether he has had it looked at, but my old mans HDS5m (plotter only) had a similar problem. with all that said though, I have never had any problems whatsoever, with my older lowrance unit.
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scotto
that sounds like a problem as i have a hds7 and (when its flat) cruise along at 45 knotts and the gps never loses track!
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davidbland50
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Thankyou all concerned. I
Thankyou all concerned. I have taken all of what you have said and gone with the Lowrance HDS5. It so far is ok. I am spoilt having had the Garmin GPSMap551s which has autoguidance and 3D everything but I will adapt.
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My last boat had the Lowrance
My last boat had the Lowrance HDS 10 , very easy to use .Was very happy with it.
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